ἀκμή, (ῆς, ἡ (cf. ἀκή (on the accent cf. Chandler § 116; but the word is 'a mere figment of the grammarians,' Pape (yet cf. Liddell and Scott) under the word), αἰχμή, Latinacies, acuo) among the Greeks a. properly, a point, to prick with (cf. (the classic) αἰχμή), b. extremity, climax, acme, highest degree, c. the present point of time. Hence, accusative (Winers Grammar, 230 (216), 464 (432f); Buttmann, 153 (134)) ἀκμήν with adverbial force, equivalent to ἐπί, even now, even yet: Mat_15:16. (Theocritus, id. 4, 60; Polybius 4, 36, 8; Strat. epigr. 3, p. 101, Lipsius edition; Strabo 1. i. (c. 3 prol.), p. 56; Plutarch, de glor. Athen. 2, 85, others) Cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 123.

ἀκμήν akmēn 1x pr. the point of a weapon; point of time: ἀκμήν , for κατἀκμήν , adv., yet, still, even now, Mat_15:16

* ἀκμήν , acc, of ἀκμή , a point , used as adv. , at the present point of time , even now, even yet: Mat_15:16 .†

ἀκμήν [page 18] In OGIS 201 13 (vi/A.D.) οὐκ ἀπῆλθον ὅλως ὀπίσω τῶν ἄλλων βασιλέων , ἀλλὰ ἀκμὴν ἔμπροσθεν αὐτῶν , the adverb seems to have the meaning valde, magnopere, longe, in accordance with the original meaning of ἀκμή (see Dittenberger s note). Cf. Syll 326 12 (i/A.D.) παραλαβὼν τοὺς ἐν ἀκμᾶι τῶν πολιτᾶν : similarly P Oxy III. 473 .6 (A.D. 138 60) παρὰ τὴν πρώτην ἀκμήν . A compound adjective ἴσακμον , with an even edge, is applied to a weaver s instrument in P Oxy VII. 1035 .14 (A.D. 143). See on the later history of this word (MGr ἀκόμα = ἔτι ) Κ . Krumbacher s important article in Kuhn s Zeitschrift xxvii. pp. 498 521. The noun was in Hellenistic use, according to Moeris : ὡραία γάμων Ἀττ ., ἐν ἀκμῇ γάμου Ἕλλ . The adverbial accus. was banned by the same grammarian in favour of ἔτι : so also Phrynichus (Rutherford NP , p. 203). In the NT, however, except for Mat_15:16 , all writers conspired to Atticize here : ἔτι was clearly quite good bad Greek, as well as ἀκμήν !

ἀκμήν, accusative of ἀκμή, a point, used as adv., at the present point of time, even now, even yet: Mat.15:16.† (AS)